Professional Football Researchers Association Forum

TanksAndSpartans wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 10:28 am Wasn't it also possible to lose the chance to even try the kick if the punt out was dropped?

Yeah, I think that's right. I think that's what the newspapers of the time meant when they said, "The punt-out failed." In other words, the guy didn't catch it and so there wasn't any kick.

I think it had to be dropkicked as soon as it was caught. And beyond that, I believe I've read somewhere that the opposing team lined up at the goal line, and as soon as somebody caught they punt they could all run at him and try to block the kick. Sounds like it must have been pretty tough to get a...

Pro Football Three-peats: More Common Than You Might Think by Lee Elder. While the Kansas City Chiefs came up short in their drive for three straight Super Bowl wins this year, the “three-peat feat” has occurred six times in pro football history. This piece lists them all and includes the clubs tha...

For what it's worth, off the top of my head I'd vote for:

Alyn Beals
Les Bingaman
Charley Brock
George Christensen
Clem Daniels
Red Dunn
Kent Hull
Joe Kopcha
Wilber Marshall
Jack McBride

-2 games less than the Ravens. -Most of it with under center handoffs (I think), no Lamar Jackson taking off on passing plays (Albert pitched in with 350, solid, but not amazing at 5.1 ypg) -A leading rusher I wasn't able to name. Can anyone guess without looking? Can't recall the exact spelling, b...

The only thing this probably changes is that Spec Sanders passes Lamar Jackson and Jalen Hurts for season rushing yards and TDs by a QB? Can't think of any other records still standing from the AAFC. I believe the Yankees were still using the single wing in 1947 and Sanders was a halfback, not a qu...

John Riggins held out for the whole 1980 season but returned in 1981 saying, "I'm bored, I'm broke, I'm back." I don't know if the layoff helped him, but I think it's fair to say it was the years after his sabbatical that put him in the Hall of Fame.

JohnTurney wrote: ↑Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:38 pm
but as far as CFL, etc ... By-Laws are specific to pro football as “played in the United States of America.”

OK, then that excludes Canadian players . . . for now.

Facts remain: He never won a damn thing without you know who True. And Paul Brown never won anything without Otto Graham. Tom Landry never won anything without Roger Staubach. Bill Belichick never won anything without Tom Brady. That doesn't mean any of them were "chokers," let alone &quo...

CSKreager wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2025 9:11 pm The greatest trick Mahomes ever pulled off is make us forget about Reid's two decades of being a generational choker

And the juvenile insults continue.